I don’t get Sowell’s argument. He says we should be focusing on things like Benghazi instead of defunding Obamacare, because defunding Obamacare “can’t” be done and it “distracts” from Obama’s scandals. But he says defunding it would be the right thing to do if we could do it. What “can” we do about Benghazi? As if it hasn’t been talked about to death by this point. It didn’t even get any traction in the presidential campaign.
Whether or not it gets successfully defunded or not is beside the point. Let’s put it this way, if someone in Nazi Germany couldn’t realistically stop the gas chambers, wouldn’t it still be worth their time to stand up and protest it? We didn’t defeat the Soviet Union overnight either. But did that stop someone like Reagan from giving speeches about it year after year until finally the last straw broke the camel’s back?
I’ve heard almost nothing about Obamacare from Republicans lately, but I’ve heard plenty about these other scandals, most of which, other than the NSA scandal, are MUCH smaller-scale. They won’t affect every single American’s life every single day infinitely into the future like Obamacare will. They won’t lead our nation to bankruptcy and destroy the greatest health care system that’s ever existed in the world.
I know, you are repeating Cruz's history analogy from his all night speech. You don't understand why everyone such as Sowell and Paul dont just accept this analogy one as the only one.
Well others will have different analogies to apply.
You mentioned defeating USSR. I recall when Hitler ordered Paulus’s army to stay in Stalingrad and fight to the end for victory. So Stalin captured that entire army, one of Germany's best and crippled Germany's forces to fight future battles. It was a disasterous tactics. It was a disaster.
So Hitler called them cowards and traitors for HIS failure and bad decisions.
, The point is There are many options in this fight but some say that since so many, especially those who demand this action themselves expect it to fail, that something else be tried instead.
If Cruz wins for us and gets Obama to defund O-care he earns my endless support, Winning is winning, But if the idea is just to lose to prove an abstract point then I am not impressed.